[syn: stigmatize, stigmatise]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Stigmatize \Stig"ma*tize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stigmatized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Stigmatizing.] [F. stigmatiser, Gr. ?.]
1. To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients
stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.
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That . . . hold out both their ears with such
delight and ravishment, to be stigmatized and bored
through in witness of their own voluntary and
beloved baseness. --Milton.
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2. To set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of
reproach or infamy.
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To find virtue extolled and vice stigmatized.
--Addison.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
stigmatize
v 1: to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as
disgraceful; "He denounced the government action"; "She was
stigmatized by society because she had a child out of
wedlock" [syn: stigmatize, stigmatise, brand,
denounce, mark]
2: mark with a stigma or stigmata; "They wanted to stigmatize
the adulteress" [syn: stigmatize, stigmatise]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
157 Moby Thesaurus words for "stigmatize":
advert to, allude to, attaint, band, bar, be taken as, bedaub,
besmear, besmirch, besmoke, bespangle, bespatter, bespeckle,
bespot, bestain, blacken, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blot,
blotch, blow upon, blur, brand, call names, calumniate, censure,
chalk, chalk up, check, check off, checker, cicatrize, condemn,
dapple, darken, dash, daub, defame, defile, define, delimit,
demarcate, denigrate, denominate, denote, denounce, depreciate,
designate, dirty, disapprove, discolor, disparage, dot,
emblematize, engage in personalities, engrave, expose,
expose to infamy, figure, finger, flake, fleck, freckle, gash,
gibbet, hang in effigy, harlequin, hatch, heap dirt upon, impress,
imprint, iris, line, maculate, make a mark, marble, marbleize,
mark, mark off, mark out, motley, mottle, muckrake, name, nick,
notch, pencil, pepper, pick out, pillory, point, point at,
point out, point to, polychrome, polychromize, prick, print, punch,
punctuate, puncture, rainbow, refer to, reprimand, revile, riddle,
scar, scarify, scorch, score, scotch, scratch, seal, seam, sear,
select, singe, slander, slubber, slur, smear, smirch, smoke, soil,
spangle, specify, speck, speckle, splotch, spot, sprinkle, stain,
stamp, stand for, stipple, streak, striate, stripe, stud, sully,
symbol, symbolize, taint, tarnish, tattoo, tessellate,
throw mud at, tick, tick off, trace, typify, underline, underscore,
variegate, vein, vilify